Source site: Steve's DigiCams Source page: Oxygen's Factory Photo title: Oxygen's Factory, Aquarium Plant Author: Alex Kawazaki Camera used: Canon PowerShot G5.

TrekLens was created by Adam Silverman and went online in March, 2004. TrekLens is based on the same code used by TrekEarth. However, TrekLens allows for more types of photos to be displayed, including pets, family, friends and more post-processing.
The underlying theme of TrekLens is learning more about the world through photography. TrekLens fosters this by allowing photographers to display their work grouped by regions in a supportive and orderly environment. This is accomplished by an easy-to-use system which encourages people to critique each other's work. Integrated with this system are forums designed to encourage discussion about specific photos, countries, and general topics. Since TrekLens is globally oriented, it is completely multilingual capable, allowing for the widest audience possible. Ultimately, TrekLens depends on the civility, honesty and participation of its members.

A technique to make sperm glow green could aid research into infertility, say scientists. An Oxford University team extracted a gene that manufactures a green protein in a jellyfish and used it to create green sperm in hamster testicles.

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MOST AVID PHOTOGRAPHERS devote considerable time and energy to studying their craft and refining their skills, with the goal of improving the “quality” of their images. Certainly, our primary mission at Photographic is to provide sound instructional material that enables our readers to become more proficient photographers. In defining “quality,” however, it’s all too easy to get hung up on technique and ignore the emotional impact—either positive or negative—of the images we create.

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Guy Ritchie and his wife Madonna have been booed by fans at the UK premiere of his new film Revolver after making little contact with the crowd. The couple walked past most of the 2,000 people in London's Leicester Square without signing autographs.
The gangster film's star Jason Statham spent almost an hour meeting fans.
Ritchie hit back at savage reviews, telling reporters: "The critics have been harsh all the way through my career but it doesn't affect me."

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Swedish beauty:
Legendary Swedish actress Greta Garbo would have celebrated her 100th birthday on 18 September. Although her movie career lasted just 20 years, her mystique lived on because of her refusal to be dragged back into the Hollywood spotlight after retiring in 1941.

New images of Mars suggest the Red Planet's surface is more active than previously thought, the US space agency (Nasa) reports.

Photographs from Nasa's orbiting spacecraft Mars Global Surveyor show recently formed craters and gullies.
The agency's scientists also say that deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near the planet's south pole have shrunk for three summers in a row.
They say this is evidence to suggest climate change is in progress.

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Several health workers have been arrested in Shandong Province in the east of China after the authorities admitted that local officials had been forcing women to have abortions or undergo sterilisations.
Sources in Linyi City and its surrounding counties claimed that up to 120,000 women had been coerced into submitting to the procedures and that some of them were in the ninth month of their pregnancies.

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